Buzz From The Streets

Diverse voices from the street on issues of public concern

2026
🟡 Mixed
Tax

“The intersection of fiscal policy and legislative transparency is often where a nation’s social contract is either forged or fractured. And taxation without transparency is just capture. If the process lacks integrity, the policy lacks legitimacy.”

Elisha Bala-Gbogbo (@ElishaBG)
16th Jan. 2026 on X
In response to public controversies around the authenticity/legitimacy of the new tax law in Nigeria.

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2025
🔴 Critical

“Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has become a toothless bulldog. The 12mm steel rod has become 9.87mm. That means the steel rods in our markets are substandard.”

@ogaVirus
15th Sept. 2025 on X platform
Regarding the growing public concern on sub-standard building materials in Nigeria.

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2025
🟡 Mixed
Food

“So some people are using formalin to preserve fish, Meat and ponmo? God help us in this country”.

Raymond Tor
3rd May, 2025 on Facebook
In response to public concern on preservation of food items in Nigeria.

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2025
🔴 Critical
Flood

“We have so far recovered 115 bodies and more are expected to be recovered because the flood came from far distance and washed people into the River Niger. Downstream, bodies are still being recovered”.

Ibrahim Audu Husseini
Spokesman of the Niger State Emergency Agency
In relation to the May 2025 flooding incident in Mokwa, Niger State

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